On season 3 of the podcast How I Wrote This, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan talks about writing and taking class with Writers Studio founder and director Philip Schultz.
Take a listen starting at 33:16: https://www.howiwrotethisthepodcast.com/season-3/jennifer-egan
FR: One of the unusual things about The Writers Studio is that there are different levels. Each one is very specific and students pass through these levels with a great deal of consideration and concern. Can you talk more about these stages? PS: Yes. I’ve taught people in their 30s, 40s and 50s alongside people…
Read a recent interview in “Cagibi” here.
At our school poets discover they’re really fiction writers and vice versa all the time. The right technique gives us permission to be wrong, and bad, and unfair, things we perhaps always longed to be; it allows us to be ourselves, irrevocably. — “Five Pieces of Writing Advice From Philip Schultz,” in Literary Hub. Read more…
Liz Kingsley interviewed the author of The Best Place to Be, published by Simon and Schuster. Lesley Dormen is a student in the Master Class and teaches Level IV in New York. Liz Kingsley: How have the workshops at The Writers Studio helped you understand your writing process? Lesley Dormen: I started in Level I…
In her first collection, The Best Place to Be (Reviews, Dec. 11), Lesley Dormen creates a narrator who’s run the bases in life, work and love, and finds, at age 50, she’s arrived at last.
Phil Schultz waits while several students in his workshop make tactful criticisms about one of their peer’s weekly exercises. When they have finished, Schultz turns to its author, a nine-year veteran of his Writers Studio program who has published stories in several literary journals, and asks her, “What were you feeling when you wrote this?”…
